As most states (sorry, WA and QLD) gear up to celebrate the King's Birthday public holiday tomorrow, some might be asking the question Aussies have been asking themselves for decades;

Why are we still living life under the British monarchy?

In this bonus episiode of The Briefing, we hear from a republican and a monarchist about their arguments to either leave or stay.

This episode was first published in October 2024 as King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived in Australia for a royal tour.

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Antoinette Lattouf is no stranger to The Briefing. Long before she became the centre of one of Australia’s most closely watched media controversies, she was sitting in the host’s chair herself.

Since then, the journalist, author and co-founder of ETTE Media has endured a very public battle with the ABC after being taken off air over a social media post about Gaza - a dismissal later found by the Fair Work Commission to be unlawful.

In this chat with Sacha Barbour Gatt, Antoinette reflects on the fallout from that experience, the lessons behind her new book Women Who Win, and why women who challenge the status quo are so often punished for it.

Weekend list with Helen Smith

• Listener Karli TO WATCH: Widows Bay on Apple TV
  
• TO WATCH: The Sheep Detectives in cinemas
• TO TRY: Digital photo frame
  
• TO WATCH: The Real Housewives of Rhode Island on Hayu
  

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Headlines:

• One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce backtracks over kicking permanent residents out of their homes
• ASIC is formally investigating KPMG
• Thermos King Food Jar recalled after causing vision loss in the US
• China’s about to put a 55% tariff on Aussie beef
• Prince Andrew appears with a massive face bruise

Deep Dive:

Aussies love to talk about property prices, and the focus this week has been on new data showing declines in some house prices. But how significant are the downturns in Sydney and Melbourne, and what kind of properties are still hitting record highs?

In this episode of The Briefing Natarsha Belling is joined by My Bui, economist at AMP, to talk about whether Australia is actually in a property correction, and what it could mean for your finances.

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